Silver Bell Claims

Past Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Molybdenum, Arsenic, Copper
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033415
MRDS ID M015757
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Bell Claims
Alternate or previous names Silver Hill
Related records 10264907

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.58606, 44.73013 (WGS84)
Elevation 2256

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Vinegar Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

North Fork John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Umatilla National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 010S 034E 02 Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Molybdenite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Kaolinite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.58606, 44.73013

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Greenhorn

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Umatilla National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WAGNER, N.S., 1965, SILVER BELL-SILVER HILL CLAIMS; ODGMI FILE REPORT

  • Deposit

    1965 RECON; ODGMI FILE REPOR

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1980 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.